Transcript October 18, 2016 - Astrolabe

ASTROLABE
Navigating Astronomical “Dark Data” through
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Gretchen Stahlman, PhD Candidate, University of Arizona
DPS 48 / EPSC 11
October 18, 2016
The “Astrolabe” Project
• Astrolabe is a new data repository and computational
environment being created at University of Arizona
(UA).
• Partners include:
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UA School of Information
UA Department of Astronomy and Steward Observatory
UA University Libraries
CyVerse (formerly the iPlant Collaborative)
American Astronomical Society
• Astrolabe is currently funded by:
– UA Office for Research & Discovery
– National Science Foundation
The “Astrolabe” Project
• Astrolabe has a mission to:
– Collect, preserve, disseminate
– Provide tools for analysis and data sharing
– Expose research data
CyVerse.org
• Discovery Environment
– Use hundreds of Apps and manage data in a simple
web interface
• Atmosphere
– Custom cloud-based scientific analysis platform or use
a ready-made one for your area of scientific interest
• Data Store
– Store, manage, access, and share all the data related
to research
Current Status of Astrolabe
• Searching for potentially “dark data” by mining the
literature, and by contacting authors individually based
on our team’s review of particular types of publications
• Hiring software developer to accomplish objectives
specified in recently-awarded NSF grant (award
#1642446)
• Working on IMLS proposal to create protocols for
migrating data from obsolete media into Astrolabe
• Will be at AAS 229 in Grapevine
• Eventual citizen science to assist with populating
metadata
Data sources: author contribution
• Will Grundy (Lowell Observatory) - Image of Solar
System objects
• Deidre Hunter (Lowell Observatory) - Image of
dwarf galaxies
• Kevin Wagner (U of Arizona) - Images of
exoplanetary systems
• Feryal Ozel (U of Arizona) – Event Horizon
Telescope for Outreach
• David Crown (PSI) - Stereo-pairs of DEM+Images
of the Moon
Data sources:
NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey Data
200 Gb image data covering 3 ˚ x3 ˚ in the northern hemisphere and 2.3˚ x 4 ˚
around the southern hemisphere, https://www.noao.edu/noao/noaodeep/
Talk to us!
• Principal Investigators
– Bryan Heidorn, PhD, UA School of Information
– Dennis Zaritsky, PhD, UA Department of Astronomy
• Affiliates
– Julie Steffen, AAS Director of Publishing*
– Doug Roberts, PhD, AAS/WorldWide Telescope Project Director*
• Postdoctoral Researcher
– Huanian Zhang, PhD, UA Department of Astronomy*
• Graduate Research Associate
– Gretchen Stahlman, UA School of Information*
• Webmaster
– Kyle Morris, UA School of Information
* Here at Caltech
Thank you!
http://astrolabe.arizona.edu